• @ZILtoid1991
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    151 minutes ago
    > go back in time
    > "no one is there"
    > change plans
    > change SPAS12 to a barrel of petrol
    > go to the moment when Thomas Mathus has been born
    > pour everything with it
    > the whole Malthus family dies
    > go back to the present
    > it's now a utopia without neoliberal capitalism and/or the world-wide rise of fascism
    
    • @Wogi
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      310 hours ago

      is THAT what that was about?

      I only ever watched the first half of the TV movie. Second half never really seemed to air, or it really failed to explain anything.

      • @Clinicallydepressedpoochie
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        410 hours ago

        Yeah, they fly through some “portal” or whatever and end up in the previous day. Then langoliers show up to devour it. There’s some other madness going on, too. You know, typical Stephen King shit.

  • @workerONE
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    571 day ago

    Only time travel to the future is possible. For example I will time travel one hour into the future and it will take me one hour to get there

  • @Sanctus
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    441 day ago

    Because the langoliers got them?

  • Lemminary
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    171 day ago

    you can easily return to the past

    but a tree used to be there where you are and now you’ve impaled it

    • @kameecoding
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      Well, if we follow that logic, then where you end up is the emptiness of space, even if you go back exactly one year.

      People tend to forget that the Earth not only goes around the sun, but the whole system is moving, so Earth is not in the same place as it was a year ago, even if it is relative to the sun.

      • @[email protected]
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        312 hours ago

        Presumably all time travel devices, spells, etc. compensate for that. If someone figured out how to travel to the past, calculating where the planet was at the time should be easy by comparison.

        • @AEsheron
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          28 hours ago

          Even more specifically, if we are talking a temporal teleport, then this shouldn’t be a surprise. Most mainstream fiction uses teleports for time travel, pop out of one time and into another without experiencing the time between. As opposed to the device Farnsworth made in The Late Philip J. Fry, where they actually just change speed through time instead of skipping through it. In the latter case, you shouldn’t have to worry about this issue at all. But with a teleport, any teleportation device is simultaneously a temporal and spatial teleport, due to causality and the nature of spacetime. So any teleport would need spacetime coordinates, not just spatial or temporal coordinates.

          • @[email protected]
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            18 hours ago

            In the year 252525

            The backwards time machine still won’t have arrived

            In all the world, there’s only one technology

            A rusty sword for practicing proctology

  • @mdurell
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    121 day ago

    NGL, this sounds pretty awesome.

    • @BeMoreCareful
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      17 hours ago

      Give me just a couple of minutes in either direction, I’m golden.

  • blaue_Fledermaus
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    151 day ago

    It is a plot point in the sci-fi series Perry Rhodan, where they push the whole solar system 15 minutes into the future (iirc) to hide it from the rest of the universe.

      • @qarbone
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        31 day ago

        No, sounds like the solar system just got pushed out of phase with the rest of their universe.

        • @[email protected]
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          122 hours ago

          The solar system will probably fall apart with the sudden disappearance of gravity of other systems

      • blaue_Fledermaus
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        122 hours ago

        For the “present” of the rest of the universe it is just empty space, the Solar System is in a bubble of spacetime completely disconnected from the rest and continuously shifted 15 minutes.